Garrett v. Dabney
Mississippi Supreme Court
On appeal from the probate court of Plinds county; Pión. A. L. Dabney, judge of the probate court of Hinds county. The opinion of the court contains a sufficient statement of the facts of the case. 1. The act of 1821 on the subject of wills does not change the common law so far as femes covert are concerned, who, as well before as since that statute, were generally incompetent to make a will. See Hutch.
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On appeal from the probate court of Plinds county; Pión. A. L. Dabney, judge of the probate court of Hinds county. The opinion of the court contains a sufficient statement of the facts of the case. 1. The act of 1821 on the subject of wills does not change the common law so far as femes covert are concerned, who, as well before as since that statute, were generally incompetent to make a will. See Hutch. S. C. P. 949, § 14, and authorities cited by counsel for defendants in error. 2. The exceptions to the rule at common law were founded upon the principle, that as to her separate property, she…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Handy
At the September term, 1852, of the probate court of Hinds county, the appellee filed his petition for the probate of the nuncupative will of Mrs. Cecilia Reagin, made on the 8th of August, 1852, by which the greater part of her estate was bequeathed to the appellee. At the same term, the appellants appeared and filed an answer to the petition, resisting the probate of this nuncupative will, and alleging that the testatrix, on the 20th day of July, 1844, while she was sole and the widow of William Car-gill, deceased, and of lawful age, duly made and published her last will and testament in…
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